What was happening when you were born?

[Fred]

What was happening when you were born?

When I was born (1967)…

Communist China announced it has an H-bomb
The first heart transplant was performed in Captown, South Africa
Newark Black riots ended after six days - 26 Dead
Detroit riots ended after 8 days - 43 Dead
US suffered its highest weekly casualties (in Vietnam)
The Draft board refused an exemption for Ali (Ali refused to serve and lost his title)
The Boston Strangler was recaptured
U.S Population: 198,712,056
Federal debt: $340.4 billion
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.33

When my parents were born (1934)…

Congress authorized the creation of the Federal Communications Commission, the National Mediation Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Congress also passed the Securities and Exchange Act and the Trade Agreement Act.
The GNP rose 7.7 percent
Unemployment fell to 21.7 percent.
Average cost of a new home in the U.S.: $5,970
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.10
FBI men ambush and kill bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
The USSR joins the League of Nations.
The First Ever general strike in the US occurs.
John Herbert Dillinger (Public Enemy Number 1) dies after a shoot out with the FBI Outside Chicago

[stsparky]

NASA and I share the same natal day.

[manrush]

Mine is Sep. 29

The US army is established (1789)
William of Normandy invades England (1066)
Capitulation of Poland to Germany (1939)
N-64 is released in the US (1996)
Mark Foley resigns due to chatting up young, nubile pages (2006)

What the fuck is up with my date of birth?!!

I'm just gonna upload the Wikipedia on people who were born in 9/29

Births

* 106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
* 4 BC - Jesus of Nazareth, most probable date of birth (d. 33 AD)
* 1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
* 1328 - Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
* 1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
* 1511 - Miguel Servet, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
* 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
* 1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
* 1561 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
* 1571 - Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
* 1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
* 1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
* 1640 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
* 1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
* 1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
* 1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
* 1725 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
* 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
* 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
* 1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
* 1803 - Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
* 1808 - Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
* 1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
* 1842 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
* 1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
* 1853 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
* 1863 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
* 1864 - Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
* 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
* 1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist
* 1895 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
* 1895 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
* 1897 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
* 1898 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976)
* 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
* 1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
* 1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
* 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
* 1907 - Gene Autry, American actor and businessman (d. 1998)
* 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
* 1910 - Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
* 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
* 1913 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
* 1913 - Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
* 1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1922 - Lizabeth Scott, American actress
* 1923 - Stan Berenstain, American children's author (d. 2005)
* 1924 - Steve Forrest, American actor
* 1930 - Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels
* 1931 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
* 1931 - James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1932 - Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
* 1932 - Mehmood, Indian Actor
* 1934 - Lance Gibbs, West Indian cricketer
* 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
* 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
* 1938 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
* 1939 - Tommy Boyce, American songwriter
* 1939 - Molly Haskell, American film critic
* 1939 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1940 - Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
* 1941 - Fred West, British serial killer
* 1942 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
* 1942 - Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
* 1942 - Ian McShane, British actor
* 1942 - Bill Nelson, American politician
* 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
* 1942 - Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996)
* 1943 - Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
* 1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
* 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner
* 1944 - Mike Post, American composer
* 1945 - Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
* 1947 - Martin Ferrero, American actor
* 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
* 1948 - Mark Farner, American guitarist Grand Funk
* 1948 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
* 1949 - George Dalaras, Greek singer
* 1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
* 1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
* 1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
* 1951 - Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
* 1952 - Max Sandlin, American politician
* 1953 - Warren Cromartie, Major League Baseball player
* 1953 - Drake Hogestyn, American Actor
* 1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete
* 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
* 1957 - Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
* 1961 - Stephanie Miller, American comedian
* 1962 - Roger Bart, American actor
* 1962 - Al Pitrelli, American musician, guitarist
* 1963 - Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player
* 1963 - Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
* 1966 - Jill Whelan, American actress
* 1967 - Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)
* 1968 - Patrick Burns, American television presenter
* 1968 - Samir Soni, Indian film actor
* 1969 - Erika Eleniak, American actress and Playboy Playmate
* 1969 - Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
* 1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
* 1970 - Emily Lloyd, British actress
* 1971 - Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
* 1971 - Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
* 1972 - Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
* 1972 - Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
* 1973 - Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
* 1973 - Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
* 1974 - Brian Ash, American film producer
* 1975 - Albert Celades, Spanish football player
* 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
* 1976 - Darren Byfield, English football player
* 1976 - Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
* 1977 - Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1977 - Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
* 1977 - Won Bin, South Korean actor
* 1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
* 1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
* 1978 - Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
* 1980 - Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)
* 1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
* 1982 - Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
* 1984 - Per Mertesacker, German football player
* 1986 - Benoit Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1986 - Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1987 - Josh Farro, Guitarist (Paramore)
* 1988 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
* 1989 - Sebastian Elmaloglou, Australian soap actor
* 1999 - Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal

Events

* 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
* 61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
* 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated after landing in Egypt on his 58th birthday (records are unclear, may have occurred September 28).
* 440 - Leo I becomes pope.
* 855 - Benedict III becomes pope.
* 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.
* 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
* 1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
* 1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
* 1650 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.
* 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
* 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
* 1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded.
* 1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
* 1864 - Sign of the Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal.
* 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
* 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
* 1911 - Italy declares war to the Ottoman Empire.
* 1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I. Bulgaria signed an armistice.
* 1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.
* 1938 - Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
* 1939 - World War II: capitulation of Poland to Germany.
* 1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941.
* 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.
* 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
* 1954 - Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch" at The Polo Grounds in game one of the World Series.
* 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
* 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
* 1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
* 1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
* 1965 - The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
* 1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.
* 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
* 1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
* 1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
* 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
* 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26.

The mission logo of STS-26, flown by OV-103.
The mission logo of STS-26, flown by OV-103.

* 1990 - Washington National Cathedral finished.
* 1991 - Military coup in Haiti.
* 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
* 1992 - Erotica (song) released by Madonna
* 1995 - Khaled Kelkal is killed by the French Police.
* 1995 - The United States Navy disestablishes Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
* 1996 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 in North America.
* 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
* 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.
* 2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
* 2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize.
* 2005 - US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
* 2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
* 2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.

[Hatsumomo]

The most important thing happened only a week after my birth: October 18, 1985 - The Nintendo Entertainment System is released on US shores.

[Kaji]

July 15:

1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
1799 - Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
1862 - American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1983 - The Famicom is released in Japan.
1996 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.

As for shared birthdays...
1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
1850 - Mother Cabrini, Italian-born Catholic saint (d. 1917) (amusingly, the church I go to is named after her)
1870 - Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
1951 - Jesse Ventura, professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
1956 - Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1956 - Joe Satriani, American guitarist

[Fred]

My Grandfather was born in 1901

‘You Press The Button, We Do The Rest,’ was the Kodak slogan in 1901.
Australia declares independence from federation of U.K. colonies
1st games played in baseball's American League
Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
U.S. captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo (history does repeat itself)
Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York
Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House"
Average Income was $651 a year
Tiddledy Winks was the hot new toy in 1901
Total Population: 77,584,000

[Kaji]

$651 a year, wow. That's 1 1/2 times my monthly rent...hehehe...

[h2orowe]

Your monthly rent is less than $651?! O________O

[Kaji]

The house as a whole is $2,200/month, however I'm just renting one room out of it, so yeah. Not too bad on the main for San Jose...hehehe...

[Kwiz]

(1991)

- World population was 5.2 billion
- U.S. population was roughly 240 million
- The USSR broke apart (August)
- Carbon nanotubes were discovered
- The web browser was introduced



I also share Ray Bradbury's birthday. (August 22nd)

[Eddie Echoplex]

well...

October 14th:

# 1968 - Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.
# 1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.
# 1968 - A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby.
# 1968 - Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983.
# 1969 - A race riot occurs in Springfield, Massachusetts.
# 1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971.
# 1969 - Olof Palme becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.
# 1971 - Two people are killed in a Memphis, Tennessee race riot.
# 1973 - Thailand's University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured.
# 1978 - US President Jimmy Carter signs bill legalizing home brewing of beer for the first time since Prohibition.
# 1979 - The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people.
# 1981 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
# 1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
# 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
# 1983 - Grenada leftist coup under Vice-Premier Coard.
# 1984 - The Detroit Tigers win the World Series.
# 1987 - 18-month-old Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours).
# 1994 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
# 1996 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to 6,010.00, closing above 6,000 for the first time ever.
# 1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
# 2006 - A massive brawl in college football occurs between University of Miami and Florida International University.

[Mastiker]

August 8th:

Events

* 1220 - Sweden was defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
* 1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
* 1576 - The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
* 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.
* 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The naval engagement ends, thus ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
* 1605 - The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
* 1647 - The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
* 1786 - Mont Blanc on the French- Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
* 1793 - The insurrection of Lyon occurred during the French Revolution.
* 1794 - Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
* 1810 - Eminent Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib married Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh, and moved to Delhi.
* 1839 - Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
* 1844 - The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church).
* 1863 - American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
* 1870 - The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
* 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
* 1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public goes wild.
* 1911 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
* 1911 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
* 1918 - World War I: Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines.
* 1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
* 1931 - workers go on strike at the Hoover dam
* 1938 - The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
* 1942 - World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed.
* 1942 - Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India
* 1945 - World War II - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
* 1945 - The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States, which becomes the third nation to join.
* 1946 - First flight of the Convair B-36.
* 1947 - Pakistan's National Flag is approved.
* 1949 - Bhutan becomes independent
* 1962 - Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977.
* 1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
* 1966 - The Beatles landmark album Revolver is released in the United States.
* 1967 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
* 1968 - Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.
* 1972 - Richard Nixon accepts the nomination as candidate for the presidency.
* 1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew goes on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland.
* 1973 - Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
* 1974 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
* 1976 - Boston, by the rock band Boston is released. It will become the #1 best-selling debut album in history.
* 1980 - The Buttevant railway accident in Ireland occurred.
* 1986 - Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcement of establishing political movement MQM.
* 1988 - The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Myanmar.
* 1988 - The lights are turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games
* 1989 - Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
* 1991 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built
* 1991 - John McCarthy, British Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by Islamic Jihad, is released.
* 2000 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

Births

* 1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
* 1605 - Cćcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
* 1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
* 1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
* 1693 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
* 1694 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
* 1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
* 1814 - Esther Morris, first U. S. female judge (d. 1902)
* 1839 - Nelson Miles, U.S. general (d. 1925)
* 1866 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
* 1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
* 1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
* 1880 - Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
* 1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
* 1881 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
* 1882 - Ladislas Starevich, Polish stop-motion animation filmmaker (d. 1965)
* 1884 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
* 1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
* 1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
* 1898 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990)
* 1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
* 1901 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
* 1902 - Paul Dirac, English physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
* 1904 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
* 1905 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
* 1907 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
* 1908 - Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1980)
* 1910 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
* 1911 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
* 1915 - Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
* 1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
* 1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
* 1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
* 1920 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006)
* 1921 - William Asher, American film producer
* 1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
* 1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
* 1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
* 1921 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
* 1922 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
* 1922 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
* 1925 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
* 1926 - Richard Anderson, American actor
* 1927 - Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
* 1928 - Don Burrows, Australian musician
* 1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
* 1929 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
* 1931 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
* 1932 - Mel Tillis, American singer
* 1932 - Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
* 1935 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
* 1935 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
* 1936 - Keith Barron, English actor
* 1936 - Frank Howard, American baseball player
* 1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
* 1938 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
* 1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
* 1940 - Dennis Tito, first space tourist
* 1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
* 1947 - Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian
* 1947 - José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player
* 1948 - Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut
* 1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor
* 1949 - Ricardo Londońo, Colombian racing driver
* 1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
* 1951 - Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
* 1952 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
* 1952 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality
* 1953 - Don Most, American actor
* 1953 - Nigel Mansell, English one-time Formula One World Champion
* 1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
* 1956 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor
* 1958 - Deborah Norville, American television host
* 1960 - Ulrich Maly, Mayor of Nuremberg
* 1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
* 1961 - Daniel House, Owner C/Z Records
* 1961 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
* 1962 - Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1963 - Jon Turteltaub, American director
* 1963 - Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
* 1964 - Anastasia Ashman, American writer
* 1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
* 1966 - John Hudek, American baseball player
* 1967 - Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
* 1967 - Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
* 1969 - Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
* 1970 - Trev Alberts, American football player
* 1970 - Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
* 1972 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
* 1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
* 1973 - Senta Moses, American actress
* 1974 - Ulises De la Cruz, Ecuadoran footballer
* 1974 - Scott D'Amore, professional wrestler and manager
* 1974 - Andy Priaulx, British racing driver
* 1976 - JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
* 1976 - Tawny Cypress, American actress
* 1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer
* 1976 - Seung-Yeop Lee, Korean baseball player
* 1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
* 1977 - Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1977 - Szilard Nemeth, Slovak footballer
* 1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer
* 1978 - Alan Maybury, Irish footballer
* 1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
* 1979 - Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir
* 1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
* 1980 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player
* 1980 - Michael Urie, American actor and director
* 1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
* 1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
* 1981 - Meagan Good, American actress
* 1981 - Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
* 1981 - Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
* 1983 - Guy Burnet, British actor
* 1985 - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican soccer player
* 1986 - Peyton List, American actress
* 1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
* 1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
* 1995 - Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer

Deaths

* 869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
* 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
* 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
* 1555 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
* 1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
* 1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
* 1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
* 1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
* 1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
* 1827 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
* 1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
* 1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
* 1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
* 1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
* 1898 - Eugčne Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
* 1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
* 1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
* 1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
* 1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
* 1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
* 1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
* 1944 - Michael Wittmann, German soldier (b. 1914)
* 1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
* 1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
* 1969 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and nazi physician (b. 1896)
* 1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
* 1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
* 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
* 1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
* 1982 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
* 1985 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
* 1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
* 1988 - Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
* 1988 - Ramón Valdés, Brazilian actor (b. 1923)
* 1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
* 1992 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death
* 1996 - Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)
* 2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
* 2004 - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
* 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
* 2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
* 2005 - Gene Mauch, American athlete (b. 1925)
* 2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
* 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
* 2005 - Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)

[SlickWilly440]

My birthday is on the same day as Kelly Clarkson and Barbra Streisand....that scares me.

[Beowulf]

My birthday is the same day as Vin Diesel's birthday!

[Hatsumomo]

I share a birthday with Luke Perry, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Elmore Leonard.

[Azrael]

Off the top of my head, I share a birthday with LL Cool J, Andy Rooney, Faye Dunaway, Carl Weathers, and on the Japanese front, Hiroshi Tamaki (Chiaki in "Nodame Cantabile") and porn star Sakura Sakurada.

[ParryDat]

February 11th 1990-

Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.

Mike Tyson lost the heavyweight crown by being knocked out by Buster Douglas

My Dad said that he had alot of reason's to cry that day.

[harper]

Off the top of my head, I share a birthday with LL Cool J, Andy Rooney, Faye Dunaway, Carl Weathers, and on the Japanese front, Hiroshi Tamaki (Chiaki in "Nodame Cantabile") and porn star Sakura Sakurada.


and one of your new moderators.


I've only had 2 students in 13 years of teaching who shared my birthday, though.

[Druid]

October 21st, 1990:
# October 21 - First Apple Day set up by Common Ground in London

*waves flag*
Woot

[Soli]

September 11th

* 9/11
* Birthday: Dylan Klebold (one of the students involved in the Columbine High School Massacre)
* Birthday: Princess Akishino (Japanese Imperial Family)

Just things that caught my eye that look interesting/notable.

And another thing- math!

September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining. Soo... 254-111= 143, 1+4+3= 8, 8+1(the main number)= 9. 9 = September. :D

I like doing things like that. :x

[Pierrot le Fou]

July 25th, 1980:
AC/DC releases "Back in Black"
Coincidentally, singer Bon Scott of AC/DC died of acute alcohol poisoning in February of the same year.

The US beat Russia in Ice Hockey, then refused to compete in the summer olympics.

Liberia went to shit, Zimbabwe went to shit...

Rosie Ruiz takes a taxi to win the Boston Marathon, but only gets found out later.

Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes the prime minister of Iceland. That's important. Just say it, and you'll understand why.

"Vig DIS Finn bog a dottir!"

In Australia, a dingo ate a baby.

John Lennon died.

4.434 billion world population

The most important person in the world (I) was born.

[Mastiker]

In Australia, a dingo ate a baby.


I wish I had admin powers, for I would edit everyone's posts to add this. :D

[erbiumfiber]

John Lennon died in December. I remember this as I was president of the radio club (we did the morning announcements that no one ever listened to) and was interviewed by a (very) local paper on students' reaction. But I guess you just meant 1980...

And I also remember the dingo thing- Meryl Streep played the mother falsely accused of murdering her baby- she even goes to prison. Only years later do they find the clothes indicating that a dingo HAD eaten her baby. The movie is "A Cry in the Dark" or somesuch.

1964: Viet Nam in some form was taking place
Lyndon ("I lift my dogs up by their ears") Johnson had become president following Kennedy's assasination. That's all I can think of without checking wiki.

My birthday is May 13th. I turned 13 on Friday the 13th. Every 7 years or so my birthday is on Friday the 13th and every 7 years or so (gotta check leap years) my birthday is on Mother's Day. So 5 out of every 7 are good.


OT
Wow, I am procrastinating a lot today. Working on a "patent troll" case- someone who gets a speculative patent, doesn't make any products, and then goes around and sues everyone who does make a product. Companies pay such trolls off with license fees just because patent litigation is so damn expensive. It's galling and there is a bill for "patent reform" in part to deal with such repulsive trolls...

[Pierrot le Fou]

John Lennon died in December. I remember this as I was president of the radio club (we did the morning announcements that no one ever listened to) and was interviewed by a (very) local paper on students' reaction. But I guess you just meant 1980...
Yeah, I did just mean December -- the US beating Russia in Ice Hockey in late July? That'd be one Hell of a year!

And I also remember the dingo thing- Meryl Streep played the mother falsely accused of murdering her baby- she even goes to prison. Only years later do they find the clothes indicating that a dingo HAD eaten her baby. The movie is "A Cry in the Dark" or somesuch.
Yeah, I was being serious about this one as well. Apparently everyone thought it was a joke. It was even joked about on Seinfeld, so I'd think SOME people would know about it...

[stsparky]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958

January
January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented.
January 3 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957).
January 8 - A 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
January 13 - 9235 scientists publish a plea to stop nuclear bomb tests.
January 18 - Armed Lumbee Indians confront a handful of Klansmen at the town of Maxton, North Carolina.
January 23 - Following a two-day general strike, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela was overthrown by a military-popular uprising.
January 28 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
January 28 - Hall of Fame baseball player Roy Campanella is involved in an automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed.
January 29 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
January 31 - The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.
January 31 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.

February
February 1 - Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic.
February 2 - The word Aerospace is coined, from the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space) taking into consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a single realm.
February 5 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
February 6 - Munich air disaster - 21 dead, including 7 players for Manchester United.
February 11 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
February 11 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African American woman hired as a flight attendant.
February 14 - The Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan unites in the Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan with the Iraqi King Faisal II as head of state.
February 17 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television
February 20 - Test rocket explodes in Cape Canaveral.
February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio. They release him 28 hours later.
February 23 - Arturo Frondizi wins presidential elections in Argentina.
February 24 - In Cuba, Radio Rebelde, radio of rebels of Fidel Castro, begins broadcasting from Sierra Maestra.
February 25 - Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
February 28 - One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurred at Prestonsburg, Kentucky, killing 27.

March
March 1 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, ninth bishop (fourth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
March 2 - A British team led by Sir Vivian Fuchs completes the first crossing of the Antarctic in Snow-cat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams in 99 days.
March 8 - USS Wisconsin is decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896 (recommissioned October 22, 1988).
March 11 - U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no nuclear fission occurs.
March 17 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
March 25 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes its debut flight.
March 26 - The United States Army launches Explorer III.
March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

April
April 3 - Castro's revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana.
April 4-April 7 - The first protest march for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from Hyde Park, London to Aldermaston, Berkshire. Demonstrators demand ban of nuclear weapons.
April 4 - The daughter of the actress Lana Turner stabs her mother's gangster lover to death (eventually ruled self-defense).
April 6 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari divorces the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after she is unable to produce any children.
April 17 - King Baudouin of Belgium officially opens the World Fair in Brussels, also known as Expo '58.

May
May 1 - Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina.
May 12 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
May 13 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
May 15 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
May 16 - Short-lived outburst of friendship between Arabs and Europeans in Algiers.
May 18 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph.
May 20 - Fulgencio Batista's government launches counteroffensive against Castro's rebels.
May 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area. [1]
May 23 - Explorer I ceased transmission
May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.

June
June 1 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
June 1 - Iceland extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (22.2 km).
June 4 - Charles De Gaulle visits Algeria.
June 16 - Imre Nagy is hanged for treason in Hungary.
June 27 - Peronist party becomes legal again in Argentina.
June 29 - Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 to win the 1958 World Cup.

July
July 5 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest mountain in the world.
July 7 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
July 7 - First International House of Pancakes (IHOP) opens in Toluca Lake, Calif.
July 10 - 7.5 Richter scale earthquake in Lituya Bay, Alaska, causes a landslide that produces a huge 520-meter high wave
July 10 - First parking meters installed in Britain
July 14 - Iraqi Revolution: The Iraqi monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists, King Faisal II is murdered and Abdul Karim Qassim assumes power.
July 15 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there.
July 17 - British paratroopers arrive in Jordan; king Hussein has asked help against pressure from Iraq.
July 20 - Various rebel groups in Cuba join forces but communists do not join the deal.
July 24 - The first life peerage is created in Britain.
July 26
Explorer program: Explorer IV is launched
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives her son Charles the title of Prince of Wales.
July 29 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

August
August 3 - The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water.
August 23 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
August 29 - Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana.
August 30-September 1 - Riots between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London.

September
September 12 - Jack St. Clair Kilby invents first integrated circuit.
September 14 - Two rockets designed by German engineer Ernst Mohr (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere.
September 27 - Typhoon Ida in Honshū, Japan kills 615.
September 28 - In France, a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the Fifth Republic.
September 30 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.

October
October 1 - Tunisia and Morocco join the Arab League.
October 1 - NASA starts operations and replaces the NACA.
October 2 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.
October 4 - BOAC uses new Comet jets to become the first airline to fly jet passenger services across the Atlantic.
October 9 - Pope Pius XII dies.
October 11 - Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of three project Able space probes, became the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA.
October 28 - Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII as the 261st pope.

November
November 3 - New UNESCO building inaugurated in Paris.
November 22 - Menzies Government (Australia) re-elected for a 5th Term.
November 23 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.
November 25 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
November 28 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
November 30 - Gaullists win parliamentary elections in France.

December
December 1 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
December 1 - At least 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago.
December 5 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Queen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost. [2]
December 5 - The Preston bypass, the United Kingdom's first motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. This stretch is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
December 9 - The John Birch Society is founded in the USA by Robert Welch, a retired candy manufacturer.
December 14 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.
December 21 - General Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes.
December 25 - Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (the George Balanchine version) is shown on prime-time television in color for the first time, as an episode of the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90.
December 28 - The Baltimore Colts beat The New York Giants 23-17 in overtime to win The NFL Championship.
December 29 - Rebel troops under Che Guevara begin to invade Santa Clara in Cuba.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_29

Births

1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1605 - Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
1763 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1865 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
1869 - Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
1878 - Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1885 - Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
1892 - William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
1900 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1905 - Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
1911 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 - Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
1916 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1918 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
1923 - Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification.
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
1925 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
1927 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 - Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
1932 - Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
1933 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1933 - Colin Davis, British racing driver
1935 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
1936 - Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
1941 - David Warner, Canadian actor
1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
1947 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
1951 - Dan Driessen, American baseball player
1953 - Ken Burns, American producer and director
1953 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician (Rush)
1956 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1956 - Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
1957 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
1955 - Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1959 - Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
1959 - John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang)
1962 - Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
1963 - Graham Poll, English referee
1963 - Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1965 - Luis Alicea, baseball coach
1965 - Gail Simone, comic book writer
1966 - Martina McBride, American singer
1966 - Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
1969 - Adele Stevens, English model and erotic actress
1972 - Wil Wheaton, American actor
1973 - Stephen Dorff, American actor
1973 - Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1976 - Josh Radnor, American actor
1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1979 - Ronald Murray, American basketball player
1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver
1981 - Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
1982 - Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
1982 - Allison Mack, American actress
1983 - Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
1991 - Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer

[whispering]

Events in 1982:
•January 26 - Mauno Koivisto is elected President of Finland.
•February 2 - The Hama Massacre begins in Syria.
•March 10 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
•April 17 - By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, granting full political independence from the United Kingdom; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights.
•June 6 - The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
•June 6 - The United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
•September 26 - Knight Rider makes its first appearance with film Knight of the Phoenix
•October 1 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101)
•December 26 - Time Magazine's Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.
•Commodore 64 is release

Some others born in 1982:
•February 22 – Susanna Pöykiö, Finnish figure skater
•February 22 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
•March 3 - Jessica Biel, American actress
•March 11 - Thora Birch, American actress
•April 30 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress
•June 2 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress and singer
•June 10 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
•June 21 - Prince William of Wales
•August 28 - LeAnn Rimes, American singer
•September 9 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
•September 29 - Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director
•November 2 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
•November 30 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
•December 30 - Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress

[Kfisher]

On the year I was born, the Earth made 365 full rotations and 1 full revolution around the sun.

[japanat]

On the year I was born, the Earth made 365 full rotations and 1 full revolution around the sun.365.25, actually.

1963:
* January 14 - George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!"[WRONG!]
* January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration.
* February 8 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.
* February 11 - The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created.
* March 5 - Country superstar Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley) is killed in a plane crash along with Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Cline's manager and pilot Randy Hughes.
* March 18 - Gideon v. Wainwright: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the poor must have lawyers.
* March 21 - The Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes.
* March 21 - Amazing Spiderman #1 is released, starting the new series.
* April 12 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham protest for "parading without a permit".
* April 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
* May 1 - The Coca-Cola Company debuts its first diet drink, TaB cola.
* May 8 - "Dr. No", the first James Bond film, was shown in US theaters.
* June 11 - In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration.
* June 11 - Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll.
* June 11 - President John F. Kennedy makes an historic civil rights speech, in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill, and asks for "the kind of equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves."
* June 16 - Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, into space.
* July 1 - ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S.
* July 26 - NASA launches Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite.
* July 30 - The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow.
* August 5 - The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
* August 28 - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
* October 10 - The nuclear test ban treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect.
* November 9 - A triple-train disaster in Yokohama, Japan kills 161.
* November 22 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President.
* November 22 - Death of C.S. Lewis.
* November 23 - The first episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
* November 24 - Alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television.
* November 24 - Vietnam War: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.
* December 10 - In the United States, the X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled.
* December 26 - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the U.S., which is the beginning of Beatlemania.

Undated
* End of the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight.
* David. H. Frisch and J. H. Smith prove radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion. (See Einstein's special relativity and general relativity).
* Arecibo Observatory officially begins operation.
* Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley face symbol.
* The IEEE Computer Society is founded.*

June 15 in history
* 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
* 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
* 1520 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther.
* 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
* 1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.[remember the kite?]
* 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
* 1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
* 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km²) around Arlington Mansion are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
* 1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
* 2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon

June 15 Births:
* 1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (d. 1376)
* 1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
* 1640 - Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
* 1914 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1984)
* 1932 - Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York
* 1937 - Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)
* 1951 - Steve Walsh, American singer (Kansas)
* 1954 - James Belushi, American actor
* 1954 - Paul Rusesabagina, Manager of Hôtel des Mille Collines during the Rwandan genocide
* 1958 - Wade Boggs, baseball player
* 1963 - Helen Hunt, American actress [Same day!]
* 1964 - Courteney Cox, American actress
* 1969 - Ice Cube, American rapper
* 1969 - Oliver Kahn, German footballer
* 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, American actor

[ruaidhri]

Dates, times, ages and memories are all important.

I was born on May 2, 1941. The Depression was still on in America but much of Europe and Asia were already at War. Later that year, on December 7th, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor starting the United States entry into what we now call World War II.

My father was born on May 10, 1898 and his father in 1854 (I don’t have the exact date). My grandfather, and grandmother (who was born in 1859) both emigrated from Germany. On my mothers side, she was born on March 20, 1903 and her father, in 1869 and her mother in 1877.

My mother’s family goes way back in America. In fact it’s difficult to find who first came to this country. We have common ancestry with Grover Cleveland and Richard Nixon. I have my Great Grandfathers discharge papers from the Grand Army of the Republic for which he served during the American Civil War. I also have ancestors that fought in the Revolutionary War. There’s just too much to record but checking it all out using the Internet and Ancestry.Com and Family Tree Maker is a lot of fun.

A lot of years have separated the men in my family considering that my grandfather was born in 1854, my father in 1898, I in 1941 and my youngest son in 1983. That’s a lot of years (129) for only three generations having children to date. I expect my son, who's now married will speed that up quite a bit. The question is: How old will he be when he and his wife have their last child?

[Fred]

I think it is interesting to look at the span of history between generations.

I once spent some time trying to follow my mother's ancestry. I discovered the ship in which her mother's mother came to the U.S. I also discovered what her mother's mother's father did for a living. He was a tool smith. I tried to figure out what might have prompted them to move to the U.S. I don't really have a good idea, but it might have been to avoid war.

[Kfisher]

365.25, actually.

I did say full rotations, and unless I'm mistaken, there are no leap years in the 20th century.

[4letterwords]

It was snowing when I was born.